Funding announced for additional internal awards

Research and Sponsored Programs has announced funding for additional internal awards that will be available this academic year and beyond based upon the Collective Bargaining Agreement between Western Washington University and the United Faculty of Western Washington.

The CBA resulted in an additional $65,552.90 being available for awards this academic year (see 22.9.2 http://www.wwu.edu/provost/faculty/documents/cba_2015-2020.pdf) beyond what was already allocated by RSP. The faculty members of the Research Advisory Committee met and proposed the following allocation this year: Three more Pilot Project Awards at $4,000 each, four more Grant-in-Aid Awards at $2,500 each, and one more Project Development Award  at $10,000, increasing the publication support from $1,500 per publication to $2,200 per publication and allowing faculty to create interdisciplinary mini-grants to a maximum of $3,000.

For the latter two increases, there will be a cap of $33,552.90 for the remainder of this academic year. The RAC will review RSP internal award allocations based upon the new funding and announce recommendations for the 2016-2017 annual year by this spring.